No, part of the plea to keep it up was that it IS hard to do. I should find the link to the interview with the hosts, it definitely was NOT easy for them.
Sometimes, reviews - especially the scores - really fail.
An aspect like the combat in Witcher 3 can be a deal breaker for you (and me) which makes us scratch our heads if the game gets higher than a 7/10.
Similarly, the exploration and TV episodes of Quantum Break were phenomenal to me, as was the combat - so I was aggravated by the low 6/10 when I felt it should have rated much higher.
Spencer said something to the effect of not expecting people to take the screws out of their Xbox to upgrade it. He didn't say anything about not updating it or creating peripherals. He also said that he hates losing backwards compatibility with each generation and wants to make sure that never happens again.
If they had made the GamePad to be truly portable (instead of being within a range of the console) that would have been a lot more interesting and justifiable. If that's the direction the NX goes, I'm sold. if not, well, I'll have to wait and see what other weird gimmick they come up with instead. ;p
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